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Turkmen or Turkoman or Turkman may refer to: * Turkmenistan, in Central Asia (referring to something of, from, or related to that country) * Turkmen language, the national language of Turkmenistan * Formerly the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic, when a constituent republic of the Soviet Union.

* Ethnic Turkmens fall into two distinct groups; confusingly, both of these are sometimes called both "Turkmen" and "Turcoman/men". Both are part of the wider grouping of Oghuz Turks. Oghuz Turks, a large branch of Turkic peoples, historically Muslim nomadic Oghuz Turks (in the 10th–18th centuries)

* Eastern or Central Asian/Iranian group:

--Turkmens, a Turkic people located primarily in Central Asia, in Turkmenistan, Iran, Afghanistan, Northern Pakistan, and in the North Caucasus -- Iranian Turkmen, an ethnic minority of Oghuz Turkish descent living in Iran

* Western group -- Iraqi Turkmen, an ethnic minority living in northern Iraq -- Syrian Turkmen, an ethnic minority of Oghuz Turkish descent living in Syria -- Yörüks, a semi-nomadic group in Anatolia often referred to as Turkmen in Turkey -- Karapapaks or Terekeme, an ethnic minority living in Turkey, Iran and the South Caucasus

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